Via Adam Norwood, an interesting post on forbidden words in video games. According to the entry, most can be categorized as one or more of the following: obscene words, vulgar slang, drug references, racist epithets, medical terms for anatomy, political terms that the Chinese don’t like and phrases that have no real bad meaning in English but which might have some obscene connotation in Chinese.The best worst names in the world.

The creator of Kamen Rider attempted to redefine the word mangaby “spelling” it with a different Kanji character — the symbol that represents a large number instead of the one for the one that represents randomness — in order to give the genre a more positive connotation.

Pixie Hollow, Disney’s Tinker Bell-themed online world for kids, has decided to allow its users to make male avatars, mostly because little kid gender warriors were doing so anyway by creating their own makeshift boy fairies. But the male ones don’t officially get called fairies — they’re sparrow men.

Do actors exist in the movies they appear in? An interesting question. Like, as a rule, does a world-famous and very recognizable actor necessarily not exist in the universe of a movie he or she appears in? Maybe yes, if only because they’d never accomplish anything, since literally everyone they see would be saying “Hey, did anyone ever tell you you look exactly like…?” At the same time, there are exceptions to this, like Last Action Hero and Ocean’s 12.